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FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH

A New Beginning

•TishriHistoricalRosh Hashanah, literally the head of the year

•NisanSocial and religious

When is New Year’s Day in the Jewish Calendar?

Gen 8:13 – “And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.”

I WORLD EXTENDED

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Gen 6:8.

Exodus 12: 2 –

“this month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”

Passover in Egypt

“Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature.”

2 Corinthians 5:17

•Personal: And YOU, be ye fruitful.

•Plenteous: The word ABUNANDANTLY is added.

•Persistence: A higher urgency to be fruitful and to multiply.

Personal Command

Gen 8:9. "And dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark."

Two Birds Mentioned

[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Lamentations 3:22.

Ex 40: 2 “On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.”

II WORSHIP ESTABLISHED

Exodus 25:8.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Pitches tent with them in the wilderness

Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:16-19.

“Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.”

2 Chron 29:17

“when Hezekiah became king, in the very first year of his reign in the first month he opened the doors of the house of the LORD.”

2 Chron 29: 3

“Every work that he began in the service of the house of

God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek

his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.”

2Chron 31: 21

“Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and CLEANSE the sanctuary.”

Ezk 45: 18

Ezra 7: 9-10

“For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good and of his God upon him. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statues and judgments.”

III WORD EXPOUNDED

“For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”

Ezra 7: 10.

• Is it plowed enough for the fruits to grow?• Is it tender enough to be swayed to God’s prodding?• Is it thirsty enough to soak in the dew of God’s Word?

Do we seek the law, search out the scriptures earnestly, to prepare ourselves for LIFE'S journey?

Are our hearts prepared?

This passage relates to when visits Abraham and wants to tell him about the destruction of Sodom. God is telling this about Abraham, even before he has had any children.

Gen 18: 19 

Ezra 10:17. “And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month”.

End of captivity is not the end, but it the beginning of something new.

2 Samuel 11:2

“And it came to pass, after the year was expired (remember this part…after the year was expired), at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel (remember this part too … and all Israel); and they destroyed the children of Amon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.”

Conclusion

"For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. But never forget the warning: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden your hearts against him as Israel did when they rebelled." And who were those people who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Weren't they the ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom was God speaking when he vowed that they would never enter his place of rest? He was speaking to those who disobeyed him. So we see that they were not allowed to enter his rest because of their unbelief.

Hebrews 3: 14-19.